Jerry Romig

I know we're neck deep in draft talk, but I thought this was a nice piece on the one and only Jerry Romig.

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Ask any Saints fan, and he or she will tell you that the game-day experience at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a sensory feast, a heady whirl of sights, sounds, smells and raw, unbridled excitement. For 44 years, a key part of that were the pipes of Jerry Romig, whose cries from the skies as the team's in-stadium play-by-play announcer -- including his trademark "First down, Saiiiiints!" -- kept the black-and-gold faithful both apprised and energized, and which were as much as part of game day as the Who Dat chant and Dome Foam. His secret? It wasn't just a job for him. It was a passion. "I love football enough that I want to be a part of it," he said in a 2009 interview. "I want to be part of something that is so meaningful to the city of New Orleans."

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